Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

Within the last 2 months, my Motorola Photon's ringtones, notification sounds (system ones), and alarm notifications randomly stop working. All of the audio is completely silent. I have tried researching this issue, and everyone says it has to do with the Twitter App... however, I do not have the Twitter App. The only way I can fix this issue is to reboot my phone. A couple days after the reboot, it happens again. I have even tried to system reset my phone, and without fail, a couple days later, all of the sounds stopped working again.

Does anyone know why this is happening, or what I can try to fix this? I can't depend on this phone anymore, and it's really making me angry when I miss alarms, emails, and phone calls due to the sound being silenced for no reason.

Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

Hi, all.

I am having the same problem with notifications, ringer, alarms, and voicemail randomly not working. Its been going on for months now. I deleted scramble with friends and that seemed to work for about a day...but now its happening again! If I reboot my phone that takes care of it most of the time, but only for a while... Here are the apps I have downloaded (I know its a lot) ... what do you all think? Suggestions? Thanks for you help in advance!

Thanks...figured I will have to try 1 at a time...it's working right now I'll have to wait until it goes out again...I'll keep you posted

Unfortunately, I've had to do this method a few times for different apps that murdered my sound.... So I'm experienced at it. I finally have a decent set of apps that work lol. Any other ones I want I keep on my nexus - doesn't bother me if it goes out because I don't have service on it.

Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

This happened to me once and a restart fixed it and it has not happened since. Also, sounds weird but I mean there have been times when I am receiving a text or e-mail or something and I interrupt the notification sound because I am doing something else on the phone and sometimes this messes up the sound. Restarting normally fixed this too.

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Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

Hi, I've been silently watching this thread since this issue has been happening to me in the last few weeks. I ran it on safe mode for a while with no issues so I uninstalled Twitter, Scramble, and a bunch of others that I thought could be the culprit and the sound still went out. I finally went to the Sprint store for a factory reset (I'm too much of a wimp to do it myself). That was almost a week ago with no sound issues. I will let it go for a few more days with no apps and see what happens. If it works I'll add my apps back a few at a time.

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Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

I did read the thread and know my solution is not a perfect fit for the problems here.
However, at least for text messages where people expect a reply quickly, it may help.

I am a proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Y and it stopped beeping when new text messages arrive.
I've tried every setting and even tried a reset factory settings. Nothing helped.
So I wrote an app to do this. Mind you, I did it mostly to solve my own problem.
It's free, there's no GUI and no ads.
If anyone is interested I uploaded it to Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...falk.falconsms

Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

I did read the thread and know my solution is not a perfect fit for the problems here.
However, at least for text messages where people expect a reply quickly, it may help.

I am a proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Y and it stopped beeping when new text messages arrive.
I've tried every setting and even tried a reset factory settings. Nothing helped.
So I wrote an app to do this. Mind you, I did it mostly to solve my own problem.
It's free, there's no GUI and no ads.
If anyone is interested I uploaded it to Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...falk.falconsms

Re: Ringtones, Notification Alerts, and Alarms stopped working

Originally Posted by htirck

Hi, I've been silently watching this thread since this issue has been happening to me in the last few weeks. I ran it on safe mode for a while with no issues so I uninstalled Twitter, Scramble, and a bunch of others that I thought could be the culprit and the sound still went out. I finally went to the Sprint store for a factory reset (I'm too much of a wimp to do it myself). That was almost a week ago with no sound issues. I will let it go for a few more days with no apps and see what happens. If it works I'll add my apps back a few at a time.

Try an app in the market named SoundAbout. It has helped a lot of people with the same issue.